Covert Observations
- Created by: Megnicpip
- Created on: 18-02-18 20:19
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- Covert Observations
- Practical Advantages
- No Hawthorne effect which increases validity
- No risk of unnatural behaviour
- Practical Disadvantages
- Risk of cover being blown
- Involves decievement and you may slip up
- Cannot ask naive questions
- Adding a new member can reduce validity
- Ditton: had to use public toilets in order to effectively take notes
- Ethical Issues
- immoral to deceive people as would need to lie
- may have to participate in illegal activities
- Patrick: gang handed him an axe to use in an expected fight
- Practical Advantages
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